Digital Media Revisited: Theoretical and Conceptual Innovations in Digital Domains

Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 10
Introduction......Page 20
I Education and Interdisciplinarity......Page 32
1 Theory and Practice in New Media Studies......Page 34
2 The Paradigm Is More Important Than the Purchase: Educational Innovation and Hypertext Theory......Page 54
3 The Challenge of Digital Learning Environments in Higher Education: The Need for a Merging of Perspectives on Standardization......Page 84
4 The Internet and Its Double: Voice in Electracy......Page 110
5 From Oracy to Electracies: Hypernarrative, Place, and Multimodal Discourses in Learning......Page 134
II Design and Aesthetics......Page 174
6 The Reading Senses: Designing Texts for Multisensory Systems......Page 176
7 Acting Machines......Page 202
8 Performing the MUD Adventure......Page 234
9 Digital Art and Design Poetics: The Poetical Potentials of Projection and Interaction......Page 258
10 Low Tech–High Concept: Digital Media, Art, and the State of the Arts......Page 282
III Rhetoric and Interpretation......Page 310
11 Rhetorical Convergence: Studying Web Media......Page 312
12 Computer Games and the Ludic Structure of Interpretation......Page 346
13 “Next Level”: Women’s Digital Activism through Gaming......Page 378
14 “Gameplay”: From Synthesis to Analysis (and Vice Versa) Topics of Conceptualization and Construction in Digital Media......Page 408
15 We All Want to Change the World: The Ideology of Innovation in Digital Media......Page 434
IV Social Theory and Ethics......Page 460
16 On Distributed Society: The Internet as a Guide to a Sociological Understanding of Communication......Page 462
17 Proper Distance: Toward an Ethics for Cyberspace......Page 488
18 “Making Voices”: New Media Technologies, Disabilities, and Articulation......Page 510
19 The Good, the Bad, and the Virtual: Ethics in the Age of Information......Page 540
Illustration Credits......Page 566
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E......Page 569
I......Page 570
M......Page 571
S......Page 572
Y......Page 573